School: Mount Temple (C.) (roll number 13361)
- Location:
- Mount Temple, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 100
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- There was once a woman who dreamed about a crock of gold under a bush in Knockdowney ( a hill near Moate, Co Westmeath). She dreamed three nights about it and also that there would be a life lost over it before she got the crock of gold.
She went one night to dig for it and she brought a couple of people with her and began to dig for it. She kept digging until a little red man put up his head and sat on a stone. The treasure-seekers had a cat with them and when they saw the little red man they threw the cat at him. The man took the cat, and the man and the cat disappeared(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Máire Bean Uí Chocláin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Bean feirmeora
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
